WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR APRIL 28, 2023
- Unusual warmth will occur in the western North America during the next week to ten days
- Warming will be slow to occur in the U.S. Midwest during the coming week. cool conditions and some showers in the north will be a concern over soil temperatures, but precipitation will slowly become lighter overtime and farmers will likely plant more aggressively as soon as it becomes obvious that warming is coming
- Additional showers will fall in U.S. hard red winter wheat areas today into Saturday morning with a couple of frontal systems expected to bring more showers next week
- West Texas cotton areas will continue to struggle with dryness over the next ten days, despite a few showers
- California will start to trend wetter again next week and the wet weather will linger into the following week
- Significant warming will induce some notable snowmelt for a while in this coming week
- Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois rainfall will be restricted over the next ten days
- A little more shower activity is advertised for parts of Spain late next week into the following weekend, but relief from dryness will be restricted in the south
- North Africa will get some shower activity, but not enough to seriously change soil or crop conditions – many areas are still too dry
- Kazakhstan and southern and some eastern portions of Russia’s eastern New Lands will continue to dry out and heat up during the next ten days
- Western Russia (west of the Ural Mountains) and eastern Ukraine as well as Russia’s Southern Region will trend wetter over the next ten days
- Unusually active weather is expected in India over the next ten days raising harvest concerns for some winter crops
- Southeastern China will trend much wetter again for a while next week
- North China soil moisture will be favorable except in Liaoning, eastern Shandong and some areas north into interior eastern Inner Mongolia
- Eastern Australia will get some rain today and early Saturday; Western Australia will be dry for at least another week
- Indonesia and Malaysia will continue plenty wet for the next ten days